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J.M. CHAMPE. Washing Machine. No. 243,360. Patented June 28, |881.

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J. M. O'HAMPE.

Washing Machine.

No. 243,360. Patented June 28,188.1.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES M. OHAMPE, OF AURORA, NEBRASKA.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,360, dated June 28, 1881.

Application filed March 11, 1S81. (Model.)

To all lwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES M. CHAMPE, of Aurora, in the county of Hamilton and State of Nebraska,haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing-Machines; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompan yin gdrawin gs, which form apart of this specification, and in which- Figure lis a longitudinal vertical section of the complete machine. Fig. 2 is a perspective inside view of the tub or receptacle. Fig. 3 is a perspective (bottom) view of the reciprocating rubber. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the inside rubber or rocker, 85e.; and Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of the compound rubber detached.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspending parts in all the gures.

My invention has relation to washing-machines of the class known as reciprocating rubbers ,"7 and it consists in an improved construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter set forth, and particularly7 pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Adesignates the tub or clothes-receptacle, which is of the usual shape, and made, by preference, with a sheet-metal bottom. Iu each of the sides are bearings a for the rubber-shaft, and the tub is supported upon suitable legs, b b, and provided with the splash-boards c c, one at each end, to prevent the water and suds in the tub from splashing out on the iioor or wetting the operator.

By reference to Fig. 2 of the drawings it will be seen that the ribs in tub A are made square in cross-section, and bent midway to form an angle, instead of being straight and beveled, as usual. Drawing aline transversely through the middle of the tub, the slats or ribs B on one side of this are set with their points or middle bent part pointing against the bottom, and those opposite are arranged in like manV ner, the bent part or middle of the two bottom slats, which face each other, being cut partially away to leave a narrow channel or space betwen of a gradually-increasing width at both en s.

My improved rubber or rocker is a compound rubber composed of two parts-viz., an outer rubber, C, and an inside auxiliary rubber, D, which is pivoted upon a shaft, E,inserted transversely through the outer rubber. The slats of' this outer or main rubber, with the exception ot' the topmost slat at each end, are also bent, as shown at F in Fig. 3, but beveled and set with their bent part in a direction opposite to that of the ribs B in tub A, which they respectively face. There are no fixed slats or ribs in the bottom of rubber G, and the lowermost slat at each end (denoted by Ff) is made straight along its inner (lower) edge, and cut out to form a semicircular recess, f, for the purpose hereinafter set forth.

The inside rubber is of a peculiar shape, as will be observed by reference to Figs. 4 and 5. Its side pieces, D, are cut to form wings or extensions D on both sides, and the lower rounded part of sides D are connected by straight slats G. Another straight slat is placed in each ofthe corners between the roundedparts D and wings D', and the wings D of opposite sides are connected by bent slats H, constructed like slats F of the outer rubber. rIlhe motion of the inside rubber is controlled by the recessed slats Fl Fl in the outer rubber, which has a longitudinal brace, I, shaft J, and arms K K, connected at their upper ends by a crossbar, L, which forms a convenient handle.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the drawings, the operation of my improved washing-machine will readily be understood.

The small auxiliary rubber will, in working the machine,move in a direction oppositeto that of the larger rubber,within which it is inserted, and as on every backward-and-forward motion of the rubber the bottom slats, G, of the inside rubber will clamp part of the clothes between themselves and the contiguous fixed slats F of rubber C, (the recesses j' of which make room for the clothes to project into,) these (the clothes) will be drawn forward and back over the ribs in the tub and subjected to a thorough rubbing, without merely rolling them forward and back from one end of the tub to the other.

Having thus described my invention, I claim anddesire tol secure byLetters Patent of the United States- IOO rubber composed of the sides D D', straight bottom slats, G, and bent end slats, H, substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and specified.

In testimony that I elaimthe foregoing as my own I have hereto afxed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES MADISON GHAMPE.

Vitnesses:

A. M. GLOVER, F. C. KENNET. 

